AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15390, 27 August 1913, Page 12

AMONG THE BOOKS.

Don't ■ ever start giving a girl presents to make her like you. Make her like you first, and then give her tilings when she's good.— Great Splendour," by Gertrude Page.

Every woman who loves children loves & man better for loving them. There's no more deplorable creature onearth than a man wanting to marry. 1 mean to everyone but the person of his choice. To her he is a shining image, a shining Buddha before whom her prido can prostrate itself and know ecstacy. A man in love is quite another matter. " Tins Ambassadress," by William Wriothesley.

I am the most lonely person in the world, and when I hear people choking with dissatisfaction because of a superfluity of brothers and sisters and fathers and thingsl feel inclined to go to Whiteleys' and order two dozen of someone's relations to be' mine on the hire system. To go without tilings for no apparent cause, must bo horrid, but to go without them that somebody of your own blood should have boots that do not let in vater must bo most delightful!— The Horrible Man." by Frances Forbes Robertson

During tho seven years of their married life he kissed her at about tho same moment every night and every morning. When he wished to praise her he said she was a most sensible woman, and, on her side, she accepted him as she did the Prayer-book and afternoon calls, and trouble with tho servants, as part of tho ordinary, regular routine of life. She would no more have dreamed of opposing or criticising him than of going out in an afternoon without hat, gloves, and umbrella. —"The Wilderness Lovers," by E. R. Punshon.

There's nothing so poor in the world as a rich man's son. A woman always somehow has the price of her whims. It is only the necessities that baulk her. Tho only way to be original is to be etupid. All the clever things have been said so long ago. Constant laughter is no sure sign of a happy nature: more often than not it is only a sign of good teeth. Zeal for a- cause often comes after hatred of its enemies. "The Sentence of Silence," by Reginald Wright Kan ffman.

In the midst of life we are in debt. Do not take life too seriously—you will never get out of it alive. The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one. The greatest joy in life is the joy of being "next." Dignity is not valuable until you forget that you have it. Civilisation is largely a matter of buttoning and unbuttoning. The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it. One can play comedy; two are required for melodrama; but a tragedy demands three. Falling in' love is a matter of intermittent propinquity. The cure propinquity. The old believe everything; the middleaged suspect everything; tho young know everything. Experience is the name everyone o-ives to his mistakes. ° Too many people nowadavs know tho price of everything and the value of nothing. The apparel of the woman oft proclaims the man. "A Thousand and One Epigrams,"from the writings of Elbert Hubbard.